Engineering Manager
- Oshawa, ON, Canada
- Greater Oshawa Metropolitan Area, Canada
$130,000 to $140,000 CAD / year · Full-time
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Job details
- Pay
- $130,000 to $140,000 CAD / year
- Job type
- Full-time
- Apply by
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree
- Experience
- 5+ years of progressive engineering, maintenance, reliability, or manufacturing leadership experience.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Engineering Manager – CPG Manufacturing
Location: Oshawa, ON
Salary: $130,000–$140,000 base + benefits/bonus
About the Opportunity
Our client is a leading CPG manufacturing company with a fast-paced, highly automated operation in Oshawa, Ontario. They are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead engineering, maintenance, reliability, and capital project initiatives across the facility.
This is a hands-on leadership role for an engineering professional with strong experience in packaging manufacturing, maintenance, reliability, capital projects, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the site engineering and maintenance strategy, ensuring high equipment reliability, uptime, and operational performance.
- Provide leadership to engineering and maintenance teams, including coaching, development, performance management, and workforce planning.
- Oversee capital projects from concept and budgeting through installation, commissioning, and start-up.
- Develop and execute preventive and predictive maintenance and reliability programs.
- Drive improvements in equipment reliability, OEE, productivity, safety, quality, and cost.
- Partner closely with Production, Quality, EHS, Supply Chain, and Finance to support plant objectives.
- Lead equipment upgrades, automation initiatives, facility improvements, and process optimization projects.
- Manage engineering budgets, capital expenditures, contractors, and external engineering partners.
- Identify opportunities to improve manufacturing processes, reduce downtime, and increase production capacity.
- Ensure compliance with applicable safety, environmental, engineering, and regulatory requirements.
- Support troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of complex equipment and manufacturing issues.
- Establish engineering standards, maintenance KPIs, reliability metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is required.
- P.Eng. designation is strongly preferred and considered a significant asset.
- Engineering degree in Packaging Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 5+ years of progressive engineering, maintenance, reliability, or manufacturing leadership experience.
- Strong experience within CPG, consumer products, packaging, or similar high-volume manufacturing environments.
- Proven experience leading maintenance and reliability programs.
- Strong track record managing capital projects from planning through implementation.
- Experience with automated manufacturing and packaging equipment.
- Demonstrated people leadership experience with engineering and/or maintenance teams.
- Strong understanding of preventive/predictive maintenance, root-cause analysis, continuous improvement, and reliability engineering.
- Excellent communication, project management, and problem-solving skills.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Lead site engineering and maintenance strategy, teams, reliability programs, and capital projects to improve equipment uptime, productivity, safety, quality, and cost. Manage budgets, contractors, equipment upgrades, automation, and facility improvements while partnering with cross-functional teams and ensuring regulatory compliance.
Requirements
A bachelor’s degree in engineering is required, with a P.Eng. designation strongly preferred. Candidates should have at least five years of progressive engineering, maintenance, reliability, or manufacturing leadership experience, preferably in high-volume CPG or packaging operations, along with experience leading teams, reliability programs, and capital projects.
Skills
- Engineering Leadership
- Maintenance Management
- Reliability Engineering
- Capital Project Management
- Preventive Maintenance
- Predictive Maintenance
- Automated Manufacturing
- Packaging Equipment
- Continuous Improvement
- Root-Cause Analysis
- Equipment Troubleshooting
- OEE Improvement
- Process Optimization
- Budget Management
- People Leadership
- Project Management
Benefits
- Benefits
- Bonus
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Categories
- Engineering
- Manufacturing
- Management & Leadership
- Trades
- Security & Safety
Keywords
- CPG Manufacturing
- Packaging Manufacturing
- Engineering Management
- Maintenance Strategy
- Reliability Programs
- Preventive Maintenance
- Predictive Maintenance
- Capital Projects
- Capital Expenditures
- Automated Manufacturing
- Packaging Equipment
- Equipment Upgrades
- Automation
- Facility Improvements
- OEE
- Root-Cause Analysis
- Reliability Engineering
- Continuous Improvement
- Process Optimization
- Commissioning
- Start-Up
- Engineering Budgets
- Contractor Management
- Maintenance KPIs
- Reliability Metrics
- Safety Compliance
- Environmental Compliance
- Regulatory Compliance
- P.Eng.